Former Bush aide: GOP is 'over' if they let Moore serve in Senate

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOSH DELK - 11/22/17 09:32 AM EST

Former George W. Bush administration aide Tony Fratto said Wednesday that if Republicans allow Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to serve despite the serious sexual assault allegations against him, then the GOP is "over."

Link to tweet

Fratto, formerly the deputy assistant and deputy press secretary for President George W. Bush, is a longstanding critic of President Trump.

Trump all but gave his endorsement of Moore on Tuesday despite the stories of nine women accusing him of misconduct.

"We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/361519-top-bush-aide-gop-is-over-if-they-let-moore-serve-in-senate

[dalton99a]

1. Republicans will not expel him from the Senate.

[CanonRay]

7. Completely agree

there is no "bottom" for the GOP

[Paladin]

10. I agree, as well.

There is no longer any shameful limit for right-wing voters in this country. trump could start wearing a red swastika armband, delivering quotes from "Mein Kamf" and order the construction of concentration camps, and his supporters would still back him. Who could have predicted that our country could be dragged down to this pathetic level? Democratic Party leadership, where the fuck are you? Robert Mueller, where the fuck are you? Our time is running out.

[cstanleytech]

29. That's not true.

You know bottom of a full septic tank that has not been emptied in the past 6000 years? Right below all that foulness you will find a hundred million Republicans.

[forgotmylogin]

20. Yeah, this isn't the first time

the Administration has been declared "over" by one situation or the other.

[volstork]

21. Correct.

Rock bottom has a basement, we just haven't found it yet...

[Hortensis]

25. Personally, I think they've settled in in the basement

as a group, and many will act out at that level until their world collapses on them, too likely ours included. That's what happened in Germany, and to their deaths many of the worst denied and refused to repent.

I've expected better of them, as a group, every election for over 20 years now and they've always proven my dwindling levels of respect spectacularly mistaken.

[volstork]

28. You are so correct.

Craven is the word that comes to mind. The distillation of capitalism run amok.

[vi5]

2. Yeah, sure.

Just like they'll be "over" if they elect Trump.

That party has made the (correct) calculation that there's enough of a core of people who will literally choose the GOP pedophile over the Democrat every single time, coupled with just the conservative leaning people who just don't pay attention enough to know what is going on or be aware of the details that they can keep this up for a long time.

[Va Lefty]

5. Yep, in large part thanks to +20 years rw propaganda (hate radio/faux news)

[Irish_Dem]

3. Wrong, Moore will fit right in with the rest of congress it appears.

And he will have the added bonus of a tax payer legal slush fund to cover up his sexual crimes.

[Iliyah]

4. GOP's party over country has been over with

for almost 40 years.

[Dopers_Greed]

6. Sure

I remember a lot of Repubs saying they were over as a party if they nominated Dump. Didn't happen.

[NNadir]

8. When they say this, are they saying that a country that is allowing Trump in the White House...

...and even allowing this freak to be a viable candidate for a Senate seat can't sink lower.

They've lived on promoting racism, contempt for the poor and religious orthodoxy since the 1960's. It's working for them.

This situation speaks to a population of venal, ignorant and racist people in this country. The problem is us, Americans.

[gopiscrap]

18. and our lack of civic education

[LongTomH]

9. 2018 will tell the tale!!!!

[Kablooie]

11. Nonsense. Moore will only strengthen Republicans.

The more horrible and immoral they are the more dedicated and entrenched Replican voters become.
Moore is only one more step in the direction Republicans have decided to double down on and their voters will never turn.

[ffr]

12. Everything they're doing in their last gasp is setting a terrible precedent.

In the short term, they'll embrace it. In the long term they'll say it wasn't a good idea and everyone will forget about it.

No price paid at all.

Republicans are vile treasonweasels. Nothing stands between them and going to Hell.

[hibbing]

13. Another one of these? Not hardly n/t

[PearliePoo2]

14. Oh bullshit! The filthy RePugs won't do SQUAT about Roy Moore.

The treasonous rat-fuckers sold out a long time ago.

Remember Paul Ryan says, "No leaks. We are family here...we have to stick together".

HURRY Bob Mueller! HURRY!

[maxrandb]

15. Fuck You Fratto

I don't even know who the fuck you are, but FUCK YOU!!!!

You own this shitstain, and you know who else owns the shitstain?

Steve Schmidt

Joe Scarborough

Susan Collins

Jeff Flake

Bob Corker

Bob Casey

Scott Walker

Michael Steel

The Wall Street Journal

EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU RETRUMPLICAN FUCKS OWN THIS MOTHER FUCKER

Fuck you and the Hate Media empire you road in on

[DinahMoeHum]

16. +1000s

n/t

[gopiscrap]

19. couldn't have said it better

[pangaia]

17. FUCK the GOP ! What about the US of A you bumble-minded nitwit???

Fratto fratto fratto

[Doreen]

22. Reagan did not bring down the GOP so what makes you think

Moore would. Trump did not bring them down either so where does that actually leave the GOP? I think still in power.

[sofa king]

23. Said a guy who was NEVER RIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING.

I have to say this is one of the forbidden pleasures I'm experiencing these days: former Bush coup goons shining up their flag pins and enjoying their new status as servants of the New Second-Worst President Ever, and standing in front of the press to pontificate about what they would do instead.

It's like watching Oliver Hardy doing a critique of Stan Laurel's competence. "I would have done something equally stupid, but totally different." Hilarious, if the results didn't hit me straight in the gonads.

[yurbud]

26. the difference between Bushies & Trump: media & deep state backed Bush

Both are trying to get rid of Trump or at least get him back on track for World War III>

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Here hold ma beer

The GOP

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. no way in hell is the party over. Should be, I get the thinking, but these fucking

deplorables are doubling down, and I am now predicting GOP members will LEAK photos of them-self in compromising positions to GAIN votes. and BLAME it on liberals outing them

[niyad]

30. we have seriously entered bizarro world when a BUSH staffer talks sense.

[madville]

31. LOL

Sorry, I just recall the 1000 other times "the GOP is over!" has been uttered. They always just come back in bigger numbers.

[Jake Stern]

32. Psssssht! Uh-huh.

They won't expel Moore. They won't impeach Trump. Once they have their entire program in place and the courts packed with hard right idealogues to prevent it from being reversed they'll gladly step aside and let the Dems take the blame for the inevitable shitstorm that occurs.